• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.185-190
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• 2016

The high-power 6.6 kV XLPE (or CV) cables at Korean electric power stations have been in operation for the last 40 years. Most of the XLPE cables starts deteriorating in 6-8 years from the operating instant of time, some cables may be breakdown at any moment even though they were installed in recent years, causing, huge socioeconomic losses. In order to prevent unexpected cable accident, the operating status of power cables should be monitored in regularly, timely bases. We have invented a device in order to systematically monitor and prevent an abrupt accidents of high-power cables in operation at power station. It has been installed at Korean Western Power Co. Ltd. at Taean, and operating normally for the last 4 years. In this paper, we introduce the functions and operating principles of the measuring device, and present the relationship between humidity and insulation status of XLPE cables for the load of electric turbine generator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.04c
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• pp.45-49
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• 2008

Polyethylene is widely used as the insulator for power cable. To investigate the conduction mechanism for power cable insulation under ac high field, it is very important to acquire the dissipation current under actual running field. Recently, we have developed the unique system, which make possible to observe the nonlinear dissipation current waveform. In this system, to observe the nonlinear properties with high accuracy, capacitive current component is canceled by using inverse capacitive current signal instead of using the bridge circuit for canceling it. We have already reported that the dissipation currents of $40\;{\mu}m$ thick LDPE film at 10 kV/mm and over 140 Hz, it starts to show nonlinearity and odd number's harmonics were getting large. To investigate the conduction mechanis ms in this region, especially space charge effect, various kinds of estimation, such as time variations of instantaneous resistivity for one cycle, FFT spectra of dissipation current waveforms and so on, has been examined. As the results of these estimations, it was found that the dissipation current will depend on not only the instantaneous value of electric field but also the time differential of applied electric field due to taking a balance between applied field and internal field. Furthermore, two large peaks of dissipation current for each half cycle were observed under certain condition. In this paper, to clarify the reason why it shows two peaks for each half cycle, the film thickness dependences of dissipation current waveforms were observed by using the three different thickness LDPE films.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.82-93
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• 2006

In this paper, filters are designed to reduce transients overvoltage in inverter fed high-voltage large-capacity induction motor drive system. Design issues for a LCR filter at the inverter output terminals to reduce the dv/dt of the inverter output pulse and a RC filter at the induction motor input terminals to match the characteristic impedance between cable and induction motor are examined in detail. These filters are modeled to be suitable to high-voltage large-capacity induction motor. The performance of the filter is evaluated through simulation using EMTP(ElectroMagnetic Transients Program). We presented filters that used high voltage large-capacity induction Motor on the basis of this. Effect of the filter is analyzed for variation of the cable length. Characteristics of filters are analyzed to reduce harmonic in voltage waveform of induction motor input terminal. The switching surge voltage became the major cause to occur the insulation failure by serious voltage stress in the stator winding of induction motor. Filter for to mitigate transients overvoltage presents a required component in drive system of high-voltage large-capacity induction motor. Also, proposed filters are proved through simulation using EMTP.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2015

The needle electrode is inserted into the cross-linked polyethylene(XLPE) which is the ultra high voltage cable for electric power. By changing the tilt of the needle electrode, we investigated how the void and the thickness of the insulating layer influence the partial discharge(PD) characteristics and the insulating breakdown. In order to investigate the PD characteristics, The XLPE cable was used to the specimens and the tungsten electrode was used with the needle electrode. And the inner semi-conductive layer material of XLPE cable was used with the negative electrode by bonding with the use of conduction tape. The size of the specimens was manufactured to be $16{\times}40{\times}30[mm^3]$. We confirmed the effect on changing the PD characteristics according to the changing voltage and the tilt of the electrode after applying the voltage on the electrode from 1[kV] to 40[kV] at room temperature. In the PD characteristics, it was confirmed that the PD current of air void specimens with tilt was unstable more than that of no void specimens with tilt. It was also confirmed that the breakdown voltage was decreased because the effect of air void is more active than the change of the needle electrode tilt in the specimen with air void inside the insulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.185-188
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• 2002

In the design of superconducting power equipments such as transformer, cable and fault current limit, knowledge of the dielectric behavior of both liquid and gaseous at very low temperatures is very importance. Especially, Electrical properties of liquid nitrogen($LN_{2}$) and gaseous nitrogen($GN_{2}$) have become of great interest again since the discovery of high temperature superconductors. However, many sources of $LN_{2}$and $GN_{2}$ problems in the test of pancake coil model arising form the deficiency of insulation data. Therefore, this paper describes the results of an experimental study on the ac breakdown voltage($V_{B}$) properties of $LN_2$ and Air under the electrode of simulated HTS pancake coil. The ac breakdown voltage of $GN_{2}$ have been measured by pancake coil-pancake coil gaps over the temperature range of 293 K to 77 K.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.497-498
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• 2011

초전도 케이블을 실계통에 연계한 계통이 운용되고 있으므로 인해 많은 계통 과도현상의 모델링이 필요하다. 초전도 전력기기의 특성을 고려한 계통영향 분석을 통해 향후 초전도 기기의 확대 보급을 위한 적용기술 기반 확보가 필요하다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 초전도케이블의 실계통 적용을 위해서 이천변전소에 시범 적용된 초전도케이블 계통을 대상으로 전력계통의 뇌격 침입에 의한 계통의 과전압 현상을 파악하기 위한 전력계통 모델링 및 계통모의를 실시하였다. 최근 낙뢰로 인한 전력계통의 고장율도 증대되고 이로 인한 피해도 증가되고 있어, 향후 실계통 적용될 초전도 전력기기에 대한 과전압 특성에 대한 기술적 분석은 반드시 요구되고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.11c
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• pp.872-874
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• 1998

The needle electrode was inserted in virgin and 1.000 hr aged XLPE which is the insulation used for 22.9 kV underground distribution cable with the distance of 1, 1.5 and 2mm respectively. Breakdown voltage were measured for the virgin and 1.000 hr aged specimen and statistically evaluated through Weibull distribution. As the of electrode increase in virgin and 1.000 hr aged specimen. shape parameter and scale parameter showed increase coincidently. For shape parameter, the value of aged specimen showed the higher than that of virgin specimen.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.99-101
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• 2006

As the same concept with GIB, GIL(Gas Insulated Line) has been established and run for the first time in New Jersey, America, in 1972. At the beginning, the installation condition of GIL was complicated and the construction cost was excessive, so it was not economical, but the construction cost was substantially reduced with the use of insulation material which is the mixture of $SF_6$ and $N_2$ Gas in Germany, in 1990s. And also comparing to cable, GIL has lots of advantages, such as being capable of the high voltage transmission, being applied to reclosing and lowering the strength of electromagnetic force, Due to these advantages, GIL is recently accepted in many countries.

• 전기의세계
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.315-320
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• 1980

It has been appeared and widely used today SF6 Gas Insulated Substation(Hereafter called GIS) for the power supply to the densely populated area due to the superior insulation withstand ability of SF6 Gas. And to maximize the compact effect of this substation, it is normal practice to connect underground cables. If it is possible to elieminate the redundant lightning arresters using the physical characterestics of travelling waves in underground cables, economical advantages can be obtained together with easy maintenances. It is presented in this paper the possiblity of eliminating the transformer protection lightning arresters under some conditions for the 154kV GIS's (BIL:750kV) which Korea Electric Co. plans to construct using the general purpose digital computer program.

• 전기의세계
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.476-488
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• 1985

전기공학분야의 여러다른 부분과 같이 전력케이블 분야에서도 수많은 연구와 아울러 특히 19세기후반에 전력케이블의 제작에 성공한 것은 20세기에 들어와서 케이블과 이에 관련된 모든 기술이 빠른 속도로 발달하게된 주원동력이 되었다고 보아도 과언은 아니다. 비록 19세기 후반에 고무(rubber)를 사용하여 케이블 절연 하였지만, 그이후 약 70여년이상을 Impergnated paper(오일복합수지(oil compound resin)나 오일(oil)을 종이에 스며들게한 후 그 종이를 절연재료로 이용함)를 전력케이블 절연재료로 많이 사용하여 왔다. 아울러 OF cable의 제조기술도 향상되어 현재 매우 높은 전압과 상당한 전력용량를 충족시키는 전력케이블로서 발달을 계속하고 있다. 1960년대에 들어서서 extruded polymer material 이 전력케이블의 절연재료로 쓰이게 되었는데 현저하게 주로 쓰이는 재료로 폴리에틸렌인대, 그대로 순수한 상태로 또는 어떤 처리를 하여 쓰기도 한다. 그러나 EPR(ethylene propylene rubber)도 역시 개발중에 있다. Extruded synthetic insulation을 사용한 케이블은 현재 모든 필요한 전류와 전압을 망라하여 널리 쓰이고 있으며 다른재료를 사용한 케이블 보다 설치하기에 쉽고 사용법이 비교적 간단하고, 또한 전력망(network)에서의 신뢰서이도 높은 것으로 나타나 매우 만족스런 재료로 인정받고 있다.